{"id":14989,"date":"2017-01-24T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14989"},"modified":"2017-01-22T05:11:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T10:11:51","slug":"whoa-yelling-at-the-referee-might-actually-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/whoa-yelling-at-the-referee-might-actually-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoa. Yelling At The Referee Might Actually Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/012217_0849_WhoaYelling1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Noah Davis and Michael Lopez did a statistical analysis of referee calls in American football:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An study of NFL games found that referees call more penalties against the defensive team, when they&#8217;re standing on the offensive team&#8217;s sideline, and vice versa.<\/li>\n<li>The effect is most prominent when the referee is standing in the area of the sideline that substitute players and coaches normally sit.<\/li>\n<li>The effect is large \u2013 at times it can increase the amount of penalties called against a side by as much as 50%.<\/li>\n<li>Referees must make calls in real-time without replays. Evidence shows that they&#8217;re affected by crowd cheers and boos. It&#8217;s unsurprising that having an angry coach yell into their ear also affects decisions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See some fascinating visualizations of the effect on <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/nfl-coaches-yell-at-refs-because-it-freakin-works\/\">FiveThirtyEight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noah Davis and Michael Lopez did a statistical analysis of referee calls in American football: An study of NFL games found that referees call more penalties against the defensive team, when they&#8217;re standing on the offensive team&#8217;s sideline, and vice versa. The effect is most prominent when the referee is standing in the area of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/012217_0849_WhoaYelling1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14989"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15014,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14989\/revisions\/15014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}